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Air Quality Matters

Air Quality Matters inside our buildings and out.This Podcast is about Indoor Air Quality, Outdoor Air Quality, Ventilation, and Health in our homes, workplaces, and education settings.And we already have many of the tools we need to make a difference.The conversations we have and how we share this knowledge is the key to our success.We speak with the leaders at the heart of this sector about them and their work, innovation and where this is all going.Air quality is the single most significant

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#77 - Robert Bean: The Human Element and Building...

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2025/06/23

Send us a text Indoor environmental quality is about more than just air quality – it encompasses everything our sensory systems experience within built environments. This knowledge provides a framework for creating healthier, more human-centered buildings. • Indoor environmental quality encompasses thermal comfort, acoustics, lighting, vibration, odors, microbiome, and water quality • Neuroscience can help us understand how our brains respond to environmental stressors even when we don't con...

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One Take #5 Clean Air, Full Classes

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2025/06/19

Send us a text Research establishes a direct link between classroom air quality and student attendance rates through a comprehensive study of 144 classrooms across 31 Midwestern elementary schools. The findings provide compelling evidence that improved ventilation and lower PM2.5 levels significantly reduce illness-related absences, even at pollution levels previously considered acceptable. • For every 1 L/s/person increase in ventilation rate, classrooms experienced 5.6 fewer absence days a...

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#76 - Erik Malmstrom: The Invisible Made Visible:...

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2025/06/16

Send us a text Imagine if you could actually see how viruses and bacteria move through the air in a building. That's exactly what Safe Traces technology allows us to do, and the implications for public health and building performance are profound. In this eye-opening conversation, CEO Eric Malmstrom reveals how his company's DNA-tagging technology is transforming our understanding of airborne infection risk. Born from bioterrorism concerns after 9/11, Safe Traces developed surrogate challeng...

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One Take #4 :Indoor Air Crisis in Global Social Housing

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2025/06/12

Send us a text What happens when the air inside your home is slowly making you sick? For millions of people living in social housing across developing nations, this isn't a hypothetical question—it's daily reality. A review published in Applied Sciences reveals the shocking reality about indoor air quality in social housing throughout low and middle-income countries. The numbers are staggering: PM2.5 levels reaching 1,360 micrograms per cubic meter during cooking (90 times higher than WHO gu...

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#75 - Sarah Gudeman: The Human Side of Sustainable...

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2025/06/09

Send us a text What distinguishes a truly healthy building from one that simply meets minimum code requirements? In this conversation with Sarah Gudeman, Principal and Practice Lead at Branch Pattern, we explore the critical intersection where engineering expertise meets human-centered design in the pursuit of better built environments. Sarah brings a refreshingly practical perspective to the often theoretical world of indoor air quality and sustainability. As she explains, "Code compliant i...

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One Take #3 - Beyond the Comfy Chair: Home indoor air...

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2025/06/05

Send us a text Ever wondered why you sometimes struggle to focus when working from home? We dive into fascinating new research that connects the invisible elements of our home environments to how well our brains function during remote work. This episode explores groundbreaking 2024 research fromAnna s. Young and colleagues who monitored over 200 remote workers for an entire year, tracking how their home's air quality and temperature affected their thinking abilities. The findings revea...

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#74 - Joseph Allen: Communicating science and turning...

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2025/06/02

Send us a text What if the air you breathe at work is silently shaping your performance, creativity, and health? Harvard's Dr. Joseph Allen has become the leading voice connecting building science with human potential - showing how something as simple as better ventilation can transform productivity while protecting health. In this wide-ranging conversation, he reveals why healthy buildings remain a financial no-brainer, pointing to his research demonstrating that even small improvements tra...

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One Take #2 - Experimental analysis to quantify...

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2025/05/29

Send us a text Imagine a technology that could silently work in the background, destroying harmful microbes in the air we breathe without harming us. That's the promise of Far-UVC light at 222 nanometers, and groundbreaking room-scale research just brought this closer to reality. Hospital-acquired infections alone cost the NHS £2.7 billion annually and affect hundreds of thousands of patients. While proper ventilation remains our first defense against airborne pathogens like TB, influenza, a...

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#73 - Olivia Swann & Dan Bowers: Echo Chambers and...

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2025/05/26

Send us a text What happens when a pediatrician who codes and a psychologist studying technology acceptance walk into a built environment conference? Sometimes the most illuminating perspectives come from the margins. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Olivia Swan, a pediatric infectious disease consultant and data scientist, and Dan Bowers, head of Psychology at the University of South Wales, to explore the fascinating intersection of human behaviour, health, and our built spaces. Livvy ...

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One Take #1: Ten questions concerning the future of...

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2025/05/22

Send us a text We explore a paper examining the future of residential air quality and its environmental justice implications. This research highlights how poor indoor air quality disproportionately affects disadvantaged communities, creating a "triple jeopardy" of higher exposure, greater health burdens, and limited resources to address the problem. • Indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air, with pollutants coming from building materials, cleaning products, cooking, and outdoor air ...

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#72 - John Wenger: Hydroxyl Radicals: Nature's...

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2025/05/19

Send us a text Have you ever wondered what's really happening in the air around us? In this captivating conversation with Professor John Wenger of University College Cork, we dive into the hidden chemistry that shapes our atmosphere and affects our health in ways most of us never consider. At the heart of our discussion is the fascinating world of hydroxyl radicals – nature's invisible cleaning crew that exists at just one part per trillion in our air yet drives fundamental atmospheric react...

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#71 - Asit Kumar Mishra: Data, People, and Buildings:...

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2025/05/12

Send us a text What drives someone to spend two decades studying the air we breathe indoors? In this conversation, I sit down with Asit Kumar Mishra, a research fellow at University College Cork, to explore the fascinating world behind the research that shapes our built environments. Asit takes us on a journey from his early days as a mechanical engineering student in India to becoming an internationally recognized researcher in building ventilation, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality. ...

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#70 - Rosie Wills: Housing's Hidden Battles and Data...

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2025/05/05

Send us a text The curious mind can transform an industry—and that's exactly what Rosie Wills has accomplished at Mid Devon Housing. Her journey from accidental investigator to sector-recognized expert offers a masterclass in how systematic curiosity can revolutionize approaches to persistent housing problems. Starting with a simple desire to reduce tenant wait times for technical inspections, Rosie uncovered that damp and mold constituted the largest category of these inspections. Rather th...

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#69 - Carl Zimmer: Airborne - The Hidden History of...

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2025/04/28

Send us a text Carl Zimmer, columnist for the New York Times and acclaimed science writer, discusses his new book "Airborne" which explores the fascinating yet troubling history of how we understand disease transmission through air. • Pandemic debates about COVID transmission revealed historical patterns of resistance to airborne disease theories • William and Mildred Wells discovered in the 1930s-40s that diseases float in air droplets for hours but were largely forgotten by history • The W...

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#68 - Jelle Laverge, Gaëlle Guyotte and Marc Abadie -...

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2025/04/14

Send us a text What happens when 46 research institutes from 21 countries join forces to tackle one of our most pressing indoor environmental challenges? A groundbreaking framework that's already changing how we approach air quality in our homes. The Annex 86 project represents a fascinating convergence of engineering, chemistry, and public health expertise focused on creating energy-efficient indoor air quality management strategies for residential buildings. Over five years, this internati...

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#67- Barry Cope: You Can't Manage What You Don't...

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2025/04/07

Send us a text The quality of air we breathe in our homes directly impacts our health, yet the ventilation systems responsible for delivering that air are failing at alarming rates. In this eye-opening conversation with Barry Cope, Group Managing Director of ATMA and SITMA, we delve into the troubling disconnect between air tightness testing (which has improved dramatically) and ventilation commissioning (which remains woefully inadequate). Barry reveals the shocking truth that ventilation s...

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66 - Aayush Jha: Clean Air as a Service: The Future...

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2025/03/31

Send us a text The revolutionary "clean air as a service" business model is transforming how we approach indoor air quality in challenging environments. Rather than simply selling filtration equipment with uncertain outcomes, companies like Clairco are guaranteeing results through a comprehensive system of monitoring, analytics, and accountability. Aayush Jha, Clairco's co-founder and CEO, reveals the fascinating inner workings of this approach that promises clients indoor air quality ...

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#65 - Steven "Robbie" Burns & Ian Ray: The Air They...

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2025/03/27

Send us a text What happens when those who run toward danger face an invisible, deadly threat long after the flames are extinguished? This compelling episode pulls back the curtain on the shocking occupational health crisis affecting firefighters worldwide. Stephen "Robbie" Burns and Ian Ray bring decades of fire service experience to share the devastating reality of toxic exposure in firefighting. Having been classified as Class 1 carcinogenic by the World Health Organization, firefighting ...

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#64 - Liz Male: Communicating Complexity: How to...

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2025/03/17

Send us a text We explore the art of communicating technical subjects effectively with PR expert Liz Male MBE, focusing on how consistency in messaging builds trust and the power of storytelling to convey complex information. • Communications in the built environment have improved but remain inconsistent across the industry • Consistency in messaging is essential for building trust with your audience • Effective communication starts with clear business objectives beyond just selling products...

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#63 - David Pierpoint: Quality Over Quantity. Why...

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2025/03/10

Send us a text David Pierpoint discusses how skills and training are key to improving quality in our built environment, drawing from his 15 years of experience developing the retrofit sector through The Retrofit Academy. • Industry struggles with consistent quality in both retrofit and ventilation sectors • Government funding often focuses on single measures rather than holistic retrofit • Ventilation frequently missing from retrofit measures lists despite being essential • Professional acco...

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